Attention has emerged as a site of political, economic, and moral struggle

Evidence

Attention has become an issue of intense political, economic, and moral concern over recent years: from the commodification of attention by digital platforms to the alleged loss of the attentional capacities of screen-addicted children (and their parents). — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 10

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s platform/surveillance reading program and to commons debates about the digital attention economy. — connects to: Collective political attention is structured by environmental agenda-setting mechanisms. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 133; Attention merchants now shape the course of human lives and futures — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1143; Attention is the defining political and existential question of the current era (+8 more)

Related

• Attention is a socially produced and politically governed resource, not merely a scarce one. (similarity 0.91)
• Attention functions as a political economy embedded in specific temporal contexts (similarity 0.89)
• Collective political attention is structured by environmental agenda-setting mechanisms. (similarity 0.87)
• Attention is an activity that forms persons, not a resource that platforms act upon (similarity 0.87)
• Attention has long been treated as valuable and manipulable, not only digitally. (similarity 0.87)
• Attention is socially and materially mediated, not just a scarce mental resource (similarity 0.86)
• The line between forced and free attention is itself a political question needing investigation (similarity 0.86)
• Attention now functions like money as a common metric for cultural value. (similarity 0.86)
• The rise of Bolsonaro galvanized attention activists around attention’s commodification (similarity 0.84)
• Anthropology has studied attention mostly implicitly, not as an explicit topic (similarity 0.84)
• Attention is becoming the hegemonic resource restructuring material production (similarity 0.83)
• Attention scarcity is a capitalist construction, not a universal given (similarity 0.83)
• Attention-economy analysis must be reframed within a broader attention ecosophy (similarity 0.83)
• Attention is the scarce resource that powers the information economy. (similarity 0.83)
• Attention is a shared common resource, not private property. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Attention is a socially produced and politically governed resource, not merely a scarce one. #expands (0.85) — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 19
• Attention is the defining political and existential question of the current era #expands (0.80)
• The line between forced and free attention is itself a political question needing investigation #qualifies (0.80) — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 67
• Politics itself is being reshaped by attentional extraction industries #exemplifies (0.75)
• The rise of Bolsonaro galvanized attention activists around attention’s commodification #exemplifies (0.75) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 25
• Attention activism requires collectively building attention’s public meaning #expands (0.70) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 236
• Attention functions as a political economy embedded in specific temporal contexts #qualifies (0.70) — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 25